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Single-Use Plastics 101

GuideUnited StatesCourtney Lindwall
Here’s everything you need to know about the most ubiquitous (and avoidable) kind of plastic waste: the kind made to be tossed in mere minutes.
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Will Funds for Water Infrastructure Flow Fairly?

ReportUnited StatesBecky Hammer, Erik D. Olson
These report cards grade all 50 states on water funding equity.
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Getting the Lead Out: Removing Lead Pipes Would Yield Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Health Benefits

Issue BriefUnited StatesErik D. Olson
Removing lead service lines could save the United States an estimated $786 billion from avoided health impacts over the next 35 years.

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Polling on Smog Rule Delay: National Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: National Memo (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: National Latino Women Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Michigan Suburban Women Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Michigan Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Michigan Memo (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Florida Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Florida Memo (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Florida Latino Women Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Colorado Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: Colorado Memo (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: California Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: California Memo (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Polling on Smog Rule Delay: California Latino Women Results (PDF)

Polling
President Obama’s decision to delay new public health standards for ozone and smog pollution may have pleased big business, but it but it sorely disappointed key demographic groups, including Latinos and women in nine key 2012 battleground states, according to...

Results of New York Statewide Survey on Williams Pipeline (PDF)

Polling
Results of statewide polling, conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research for NRDC, regarding the Williams pipeline, which would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, crossing under New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, finally terminating in the Rockaways...

2015 Michigan Poll on Energy Issues (PDF)

Polling
A March, 2015 statewide survey finds that Michiganders are increasingly enthusiastic about energy efficiency and wind and solar power, which they see as creating jobs and having more positive than negative impacts on energy costs. Unsurprisingly, therefore, policy proposals which...